Software Engineer, Archiving & Data Services (Remote)

Interested in a mission-driven job ensuring open access to information for a global audience? Enjoy building technologies and products critical to thousands of libraries, non-profits, cultural heritage, and educational organizations worldwide? Internet Archive is seeking a Software Engineer for its Archiving & Data Services group. Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library, top 200 website at archive.org, and an archive of over 100 petabytes of digital information running in many self-owned and operated data centers. Internet Archive also provides mission-aligned services to thousands of organizations worldwide, working collaboratively to advance our goal of “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”

We are seeking a Software Engineer to work in our 12 person engineering team and help grow the Archiving & Data Services group’s suite of digital archiving, data, and access services for a global set of partner research, memory, and social good organizations. All engineering roles will work closely with product, program, and operations staff to engage in the full software development lifecycle. Preliminary duties of the role will primarily focus on developing Archive-It, our web archiving service currently used by over 1000 partner organizations to archive and provide public access to web collections totalling hundreds of terabytes of data and billions of files each year. The role may also assist with specific development projects for other department services and systems. Reporting to the department Head of Engineering, the Software Engineer will help build and improve tools, technologies, and systems that support values-aligned products, at petabyte scale, for a global coalition of institutions providing open access to digital information.

Key Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining department web, data, and archival systems
• Writing and delivering high-quality software along with automated tests
• Leading the evolution of the stateful systems underpinning our services.
• Assisting with production operation issues
• Collaborating with diverse stakeholders to translate requirements and features into technical designs and software solutions
• Developing deep expertise in a range of the technologies in our stack
• Fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and growth
• The role requires some travel to North America based events and meetings, including team and organization in-person meetings as well as possible conferences, symposia, and partner-convening events conducted as part of our programs.

Qualifications and Skills:

• At least 3 years of experience as a professional software engineer
• Strong measurement and analysis skills. The ideal candidate is experienced in adding the right instrumentation to diagnose production issues, and can empirically qualify new infrastructure to bring into our stack.
• Experience using Python to build web and data services is preferred
• Expertise, or an interest to become an expert, in one or more of the following stateful systems:
  • Postgres
  • Elasticsearch
  • Cassandra, Scylla, or other distributed KV databases
  • Temporal (temporal.io)
• Experience or proficiency in any of the following are a plus:
  • Web crawling or Django experience
  • Broad knowledge of the technologies and protocols underlying the web are valued over specific framework experience
  • Experience building solutions without managed services. We own and operate our own data centers running Linux virtual machines and self-administer the full stack.
  • Linux system administration skills
  • Comfort working in a loosely structured environment requiring individual autonomy and initiative within one's scope of responsibilities

Job Details

This is a full-time, permanent, remote-first position working in a distributed team. Candidates will need to have significant time overlap with North America (and largely Pacific Time) based colleagues. Compensation will be commensurate with experience and the role is open to candidates of varying seniority with a general salary range of $110,000 to $125,000 that will take into account experience and location. Applicants must be eligible to work in either the United States or Canada. References must be made available upon request.

Benefits & Perks

The Internet Archive is a remote-first workplace and provides a comprehensive benefits package including PTO, paid holidays, and medical benefits. Depending on where you live, we also provide these additional benefits; dental, vision, health savings accounts, flex spending accounts, commuter benefits, short term disability, long term disability and retirement programs. At the Internet Archive, we believe we do our best work when our employees bring together diverse ideas. Members of all groups under represented in the tech industry and library world are strongly encouraged to apply. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Internet Archive complies with the Fair Chance Ordinance. Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit library founded in 1996.